Concerning Re: Keyword substitution on Word Do
Garrett Rooney wrote on 25 Jul 2003, 10:22, at least in part:
> Sindbad the Seafarer wrote:
>
> > Thus in the end still kind of propriatary file format, even if they lay
> > open *how* they compress ...
>
> Ummm, no. It's an open format because they document what the format is,
> and anyone can write a program to read or write to that format. It
> might not be convenient for some kinds of use (like keyword expansion in
> Subversion), but that doesn't make it proprietary. They are two
> completely different concepts.
OK, yes. From the programming view your are right, Garret. It
would be up to Subversion to incorporate this format, the folks at
OpenOffice would not hinder SVN makers. However, as XML is a
tagged language like HTML I'd expect that an app saying to save in
XML then it saves in plain tagged text and not in something that in
its appearance is binary. IMHO this contradicts the purpose of
XML. It's this letting me write "kind of" proprietary format. For the
user still has to ask Does this word processor X read files saved
with that word processor?
Jan Hendrik
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Received on Fri Jul 25 22:26:56 2003